NAME
Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary - read binary property list files
SYNOPSIS
# use directly
use Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary;
my $parser = Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary->new( $file );
my $plist = $parser->plist;
# use indirectly, automatically selects right reader
use Mac::PropertyList;
my $plist = parse_plist_file( $file );
DESCRIPTION
This module is a low-level interface to the Mac OS X Property List (plist) format. You probably shouldn't use this in applications—build interfaces on top of this so you don't have to put all the heinous multi-level object stuff where people have to look at it.
You can parse a plist file and get back a data structure. You can take that data structure and get back the plist as XML (but not binary yet). If you want to change the structure inbetween that's your business. :)
See Mac::PropertyList
for more details.
Methods
- new( FILENAME | SCALAR_REF | FILEHANDLE )
-
Opens the data source, doing the right thing for filenames, scalar references, or a filehandle.
- plist
-
Returns the
Mac::PropertyList
data structure.
SEE ALSO
Some of the ideas are cribbed from CFBinaryPList.c
http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c
SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This project is in Github:
git://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git
CREDITS
AUTHOR
brian d foy, <bdfoy@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright © 2004-2012 brian d foy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.